(no subject)

I'm not usually one of those "keep your hands off my fuckin' money" people, but today I am. I discovered that filing for an extension to do your taxes takes just about as much effort as actually doing them. But I wasn't quite sure about some of the stuff, so I just went ahead and filed for extensions. I never wait until the last minute to do taxes unless there's something weird that's going to make them difficult. Last year it was the two-state thing, and this year it's freelance money. This year it looks like I'm going to get $130 back from the feds and owe the state $100. And I have to go ahead and pay the state their money. Wasn't expecting that. At least I won't have to go to the post office after work like last year. That was a freakshow.

(no subject)

I wish someone would come out with a complete collection of Peanuts strips. I wonder how big that sucker would be. There are any number of Peanuts books, but a lot of them are probably out of print, and it would just be a nightmare trying to figure out which books covered which time periods. And you'd probably never be able to fill in all the gaps; I think some strips have never appeared in any books. And it would be really cool if the collection were indexed so you could look up, say, Petaluma or Jose Peterson or the April Fool and be able to find matching strips. Maybe they could even put it on CD-ROM and let you search for phrases that appear in the text of the strips. Wouldn't that be cool? I'd love to know how many times the word "blockhead" appeared in Peanuts.

I'm gonna have to start calling people blockheads. That's such a great thing to call someone. "You blockhead." What can you say to that?

Speaking of Peanuts, look at this. That's just about disgusting.